Lawrence Rosen scripsit:
> Please let me clarify. Sublicensing doesn't necessarily mean you can change
> all the terms of your license or choose any license you want. It doesn't
> allow you to distribute someone else's "sublicenseable" original software
> under new licenses that *contradict* the terms of the original license.
Sorry, Larry. I knew that, but forgot to actually say it.
> The main value of sublicensing is that the sublicensee (an end user,
> typically) can rely on the license under which he receives his software and
> doesn't need to look for or investigate the original licenses for each
> component.
Well, that's one value. Another is the one I mentioned, that a more
restrictive license can be placed on a component by a sublicensor.
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"The exception proves the rule." Dimbulbs think: "Your counterexample proves
my theory." Latin students think "'Probat' means 'tests': the exception puts
the rule to the proof." But legal historians know it means "Evidence for an
exception is evidence of the existence of a rule in cases not excepted from."